(She’s done a lot of other super impressive Yandere Sim cosplay, too, and I hope that you go check it out!)
Custom Mode
From now on, when customizing a student’s reputation, you will see their “Total Reputation” and be informed of whether or not you’ve set a student’s reputation so low that he or she will be bullied at school.
It is now possible to write the dialogue that your Custom rivals will speak during their confession cutscenes! Just edit the text files in the StreamingAssets/CustomMode/ClubLeaders folder!
The player can now change the backdrop of student portraits in Custom Mode! Just replace the file named PortraitBG.png in the StreamingAssets/CustomMode/Textures folder.
It is now possible to write the dialogue that club leaders will speak! Just edit the text files in the StreamingAssets/CustomMode/ClubLeaders folder!
Bake Sale Advertisements
To make Week 2 feel more unique from Week 1, advertisements now appear throughout the school to promote the bake sale.
Each advertisement features a different member of the Cooking Club.
If that Cooking Club member is dead, the advertisement will feature Amai, instead.
If Ayano is in the Cooking Club, she will be featured on one of the advertisements.
If Ayano poisons the bake sale and causes people to get sick, then, on the subsequent day at school, the bake sale advertisements will be replaced with apology letters from Amai.
The design/wording of the advertisements may change in the future.
More advertisements may be created in the future.
Improvements
The “Content Checklist” screen now has a “Total Playtime” counter that displays how long you’ve played the game for. (That number will reset to zero if you ever reset your Content Checklist.)
Two characters in 1989 secretly have a crush on each other. These two characters will now switch to the Heroic Persona if they see you murdering the person they have a crush on.
The 1980s Mode rivals now speak unique dialogue when you interrupt an event between them and Senpai, instead of all re-using Osana’s dialogue.
If you’re logged in to Discord while playing Yandere Sim, your Discord Status will now update when you are in the Custom Mode scene.
Sports Club members in 1980s Mode now wear swimming goggles when they go swimming, and their hair shape changes when it gets wet.
The “Toggle Club Accessory” option is now darkened for characters who are not in a club.
The game can now accurately detect the “8BitDo Ultimate C 2.4G Wireless Controller.”
1980s Photography Club members now have unique portrait poses.
Kyuji’s alternate hair models now have hair physics.
Fixes
If the player splashed Chigusa with water while she was on her way to change into a swimsuit at the beginning of the day, her “changing clothing” animations would become glitched, and after her morning photoshoot, she would change into her school uniform even though it should be unavailable. This bug has been fixed.
In Custom Mode, if the player assigned a student the “Jog” action, combined with any destination that was not the locker room, that student would go change their clothing at the destination they were instructed to Jog in. This bug has been fixed.
Three of the protagonist’s hair model options were not centered properly on the protagonist’s head, which would cause problems when the player used the “invert hair” option. These issues have been corrected.
In Custom Mode, if the player assigned a rival character the “Sleuth” action, the rival would not correctly enter that action after placing their bookbag in their classroom. This bug has been fixed.
If the player skipped straight to lunchtime before Otohiko could arrive at school and then tried to talk to Otohiko, it would be impossible to speak with him. This bug has been fixed.
If Osana and Raibaru were socializing together and Raibaru became distracted by a weapon on the ground, the player would become unable to interact with Osana. This bug has been fixed.
In Custom Mode, if the player assigned the “CleanWitnessSpot” destination to a student, they wouldn’t be able to construct their list of destinations/actions. This bug has been fixed.
If the player used the water basin at the school pool to wash blood off of a weapon, the protagonist would float a few inches upward into the air. This bug has been fixed.
If the player attended class while Sumiko was jogging, Sumiko would remain in her jogging animation instead of returning to her normal animations. This bug has been fixed.
When the player instructed a suitor in 1980s Mode to change their hairstyle, certain hairstyles would cause the suitor’s eyes to change color. This bug has been fixed.
If the player splashed Chigusa with water at lunchtime, she would lose her ability to change into her swimsuit at her locker after 4:00 PM. This bug has been fixed.
If the player enabled the blood censor and then set up a blood bucket trap, blood would spill out of the bucket instead of flowers. This bug has been fixed.
If the player kidnapped a student with Custom Stockings in Custom Mode, the student would not appear correctly in the basement. This bug has been fixed.
In Custom Mode, any “CustomHangout” placed on the gym stage might result in a character spinning in circles indefinitely. This bug has been fixed.
When using the ventilation system, the “Foreign Studies Room” was referred to by its old name – the English Classroom. This bug has been fixed.
In Custom Mode, if the player designed a male rival, the rival could fail to spawn with the correct appearance. This bug should now be fixed.
The face textures of the “Rainbow Girls” were appearing correctly in Custom Mode, but not in normal 1980s Mode. This bug has been fixed.
If the player dismembered a student, their accessories would float in midair. This bug can no longer occur.
Students in 202X mode were using the gym uniform intended for 1989s students. This bug has been fixed.
Female accessory #19, the lip piercing, was invisible in student portraits. This bug has been fixed.
Fixed a typo in Info-chan’s Monday Week 1 bounty text.
Fixed typo in Komako’s diary.
Progress
I’m extremely eager to get back to work on Amai – I’m very enthusiastic about the idea of making tons of improvements to her week – but there are still a handful of improvements that I want to make to Custom Mode, first. If you’re thinking, “Grrrrr, I don’t care about Custom Mode!!!” please calm down – it won’t last forever.
I like the idea of completely wrapping up all my Custom Mode tasks by the end of January and then focusing exclusively on Amai starting Feb 1st, since that’s exactly what I did on Feb 1st of 2024, and I like the “poetry” of those two dates mirroring each other, one year apart.
Stream Anniversary
16 years ago, on January 17th 2009, I streamed a video game for the first time. Every year, I celebrate my “stream anniversary” on January 17th and 19th by replaying the first two games that I ever streamed – Resident Evil 4 and Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. This year, my anniversary streams will take place on my Kick channel. I’ve been abstaining from video games for the past few months to focus exclusively on game development, but I have to make an exception on those two days. I simply can’t let my age-old streaming tradition die! It means too much to me.
I don’t expect you to spend the whole day watching my stream, but I just wanted to let you know that you’re welcome to drop by and say hello while I’m playing RE4 and Goemon!
Thank you for following the development of Yandere Simulator!